The Importance of Ensuring that an Assessment is Designed to Support its Intended Uses Assessments are the most powerful and useful when designed intentionally for particular purposes – especially when […]
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Introduction to the Interim Assessment Identification and Evaluation Process Tool This week, the Center team gathers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with state and local educators, assessment specialists, industry leaders, and […]
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Discovering the Need for Clarity on the Use and Effectiveness of Interim Assessments This is the sixth in a series of CenterLine posts by our 2019 summer interns and their Center mentors […]
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A Look at Fulfilling Hopes for Innovative Assessments and Instructional Utility It may sound innovative to claim that commercial interim assessments support instruction, but simply saying it doesn’t make it […]
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Balanced Systems of Assessment The seminal publication, Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (NRC, 2001), crystalized the call for balanced systems of […]
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How Assessment Results Can Inform Instruction “We have selected Assessment XYZ to improve teaching and learning in our district.” This is a common refrain heard from many school and district […]
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